By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYReality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGood is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY